aj scott (she/ella)
@ajsscott.bsky.social
Data Scientist 📊 & Steadicam operator 🎥 I contain multitudes.
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🤞🏼🤞🏼Please, please be televised with @mayor.nyc.gov like Judge Judy🤞🏼🤞🏼
Rental Ripoff Hearings Coming Soon Near You - NYC Mayor's Office
www.nyc.gov
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM
🤞🏼🤞🏼Please, please be televised with @mayor.nyc.gov like Judge Judy🤞🏼🤞🏼
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It's one empire, Michael. How long could it decay for, 10 years?
January 8, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It's one empire, Michael. How long could it decay for, 10 years?
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In the spring I joked that the real winner of the Mayor's race was @ny4childcare.bsky.social thanks to their organizing for universal childcare. Today's announcement is the culmination of that work.
The goal of the multiyear plan, which Ms. Hochul is expected to introduce alongside the mayor in an appearance Thursday morning and will be a part of her State of the State address on Jan. 13, would be to offer universal access to children statewide, her office said.
Hochul and Mamdani to Announce Road Map to Expand Child Care
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
In the spring I joked that the real winner of the Mayor's race was @ny4childcare.bsky.social thanks to their organizing for universal childcare. Today's announcement is the culmination of that work.
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ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP:
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
January 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP:
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
"The world is only free if the US has total control of absolutely everything."
January 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
"The world is only free if the US has total control of absolutely everything."
New supervisor: "I've scheduled many 1:1's for us this next month, so you can have lots of opportunities to ask questions and get help."
Me, whose old supervisors would threaten to fire me constantly and once made me sit in the truck all day because he couldn't stand to look at me: "...wut."
Me, whose old supervisors would threaten to fire me constantly and once made me sit in the truck all day because he couldn't stand to look at me: "...wut."
January 6, 2026 at 7:50 PM
New supervisor: "I've scheduled many 1:1's for us this next month, so you can have lots of opportunities to ask questions and get help."
Me, whose old supervisors would threaten to fire me constantly and once made me sit in the truck all day because he couldn't stand to look at me: "...wut."
Me, whose old supervisors would threaten to fire me constantly and once made me sit in the truck all day because he couldn't stand to look at me: "...wut."
Yesterday an undergraduate at my alma mater sent out a newsletter with the subject line, "goodbye 2015...hello 2016!!!"
Can't explain why but made my whole day.
Can't explain why but made my whole day.
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Yesterday an undergraduate at my alma mater sent out a newsletter with the subject line, "goodbye 2015...hello 2016!!!"
Can't explain why but made my whole day.
Can't explain why but made my whole day.
January 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
IMHO @jumaane.bsky.social's speech was the most powerful display of healthy masculinity I've ever seen.
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
IMHO @jumaane.bsky.social's speech was the most powerful display of healthy masculinity I've ever seen.
A year ago, we had never heard of this man. 2025 was remarkable, in both disasters and miracles.
Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A year ago, we had never heard of this man. 2025 was remarkable, in both disasters and miracles.
TIL my mother's custom ringtone when any of her children call is the audio of Stewie from Family Guy going, "Mom. Mom. Mom. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Ma. Ma. Ma....."
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
TIL my mother's custom ringtone when any of her children call is the audio of Stewie from Family Guy going, "Mom. Mom. Mom. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Ma. Ma. Ma....."
Blessed Solstice!! ❄️☃️🌨️✨🌌 I hope you find cozy comfy restful ease and new beginnings in the fertile dark 🌚
December 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Blessed Solstice!! ❄️☃️🌨️✨🌌 I hope you find cozy comfy restful ease and new beginnings in the fertile dark 🌚
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This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
After six and a half months, or 198 calendar days, or 137 business days or roughly ~400 applications of job searching, I got hired into a role of my wildest dreams.
I WANNA THANK ME 💅
I WANNA THANK ME 💅
December 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
After six and a half months, or 198 calendar days, or 137 business days or roughly ~400 applications of job searching, I got hired into a role of my wildest dreams.
I WANNA THANK ME 💅
I WANNA THANK ME 💅
It's the time of year where every night at 11pm, I look at the clock and realize it's only 6:30p.
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's the time of year where every night at 11pm, I look at the clock and realize it's only 6:30p.
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Congestion pricing is working so well it has helped clear the air in all parts of NYC, according to a new study.
And other links to start your day!
hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...
And other links to start your day!
hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...
New Yorkers Are Literally Breathing Easier After Congestion Pricing
And other links to start your hump day.
hellgatenyc.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congestion pricing is working so well it has helped clear the air in all parts of NYC, according to a new study.
And other links to start your day!
hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...
And other links to start your day!
hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
I love the luteal part of the year ❄️🌖🌌
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I love the luteal part of the year ❄️🌖🌌
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Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
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"People that are most affected [by] the climate crisis are the people that did nothing to [contribute] this crisis. So, how can we act in terms to protect their lives and ensure that the rich polluters will pay for that?"
Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotia...
www.democracynow.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"People that are most affected [by] the climate crisis are the people that did nothing to [contribute] this crisis. So, how can we act in terms to protect their lives and ensure that the rich polluters will pay for that?"
Was no one going to tell me abt Hayley Williams?!
I can't hyperfixate on this many masterpieces at once.
I can't hyperfixate on this many masterpieces at once.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Was no one going to tell me abt Hayley Williams?!
I can't hyperfixate on this many masterpieces at once.
I can't hyperfixate on this many masterpieces at once.